Editing Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (section)

== Ancestry and early life ==
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Muhammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab is generally acknowledged to have been born in 1703<ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref name="Philby 1930: 8">[[#Phi30|Philby 1930]]: 8.</ref> into the sedentary and impoverished [[Tribes of Arabia|Arab clan]] of [[Banu Tamim]]<ref>[[#Gla03|Glassé 2003]]: 470.</ref><ref name=Saudi46>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9pJAgAAQBAJ&q=ibn+%27Abd+al-Wahhab+born+najd&pg=PA46|title=The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia|last=Shahi|first=Afshin|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-65319-5|page=46}}</ref> in [['Uyayna]], a village in the [[Najd]] region of central Arabia.<ref name="Philby 1930: 8"/><ref>[[#EI1Hou|EI1]]: 1086.</ref> Before the emergence of the movement, there was a very limited history of [[Education in Islam|Islamic education]] in the area.<ref name=Saudi46/><ref>[http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a509109.pdf Navalk Post Graduate School Thesis, September 2009, Michael R. Dillon: ''Wahhabism: Is it a factor in the spread of global terrorism?'', p. 13] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407090159/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a509109.pdf |date=7 April 2014}} Linked 3 March 2015.</ref> For this reason, Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab had modest access to Islamic education during his youth.<ref name=Saudi46/> Despite this,<ref name=Saudi46/><ref name="Gha">[[#Gha|ibn Ghannam]]: 75–76.</ref><ref>[[#Hop72|Hopwood 1972]]: 55.</ref><ref name="EI2: 677-678">[[#EI2Lao|EI2]]: 677–78.</ref> the area had nevertheless produced several notable [[Faqīh|jurists]] of the [[Hanbali]] [[Maddhab#Sunni|school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence]], which was the school of law most prominently practiced in the area.<ref name="ReferenceB"/> In fact, Ibn ʿAbd-al-Wahhab's own family "had produced several doctors of the school,"<ref name="ReferenceB"/> with his father, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, having been the Hanbali [[Mufti|jurisconsult]] of the Najd and his grandfather, Sulaymān, having been a [[Qadi|judge]] of Hanbali law.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>